Thursday, July 23, 2009

The ENTRECARD Director of Business Development, Cindy Ung, annouced the end of the CashOut Program and there won't be anymore Paid Ads (just the currently running ads will be displayed until they end).

In the next THREE days EntreCard will use the remaining funds from the paid ads revenue to cover some of the remaining CashOut-Accounts.The CashOuts will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.The remaining Credits which couldn't be cashed out will be transferred back in the members account

What are your thoughts about this, will we now get rid of credit farmers, spam blogs and click and run-members?

Could this affect our bounce rate positive (without the need of secret algorithms)?

I still have at least 25 approved paid ads, that bloggers purchased, and I approved, in waiting. Do they think I am going to let them run on my site, with no compensation for me, nope I will be canceling them.

I guess their biggest problem is how to monetize their free 1-to-1 traffic system. I think in the beginning Graham thought he could sell EntreCard for a nice amount of money and then pay back the debt to ZipRunner.

But in the end it didn't work out for him.

So ZipRunner has to invent a money-making system. I guess something like Adgitize sounds good. Or some kind of Premium account with discount on advertising.

Bounce rate will remain high - no matter if the visitors come from EntreCard, Adgitize or CMF Ads. All three Ad Networks have the same problem. Members only visit the blogs to get the incentives, may it be ECs, Points or 0,2 Cents for a clicked spike.

But in the end after 2 years this kind of traffic gave me 200 followers in Google Friend Connect (even when not everyone is still visiting my blog).

It's just no more fun to drop from your inbox as there are mostly Ghostdroppers (using a program without visiting your website).

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